GenAI Engineer (LLM)

Location: Hybrid role assigned to a facility in Bloomington, Illinois; Dunwoody, Georgia; Richardson, Texas; or Tempe, Arizona, with approximately 40% in-office time each month beginning in late 2027. Applicants must be eligible to work lawfully in the United States immediately; visa sponsorship is not available.

Salary: $85,000–$142,000 per year, plus potential yearly incentive pay of up to 15% of base salary.

Company

hirify.global provides insurance and financial services while investing in communities and customer support.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain the LARRY FastAPI backend and REST APIs for conversation, ingestion, and knowledge retrieval.
• Build and support LLM-powered RAG pipelines using the kcd-repository knowledge base.
• Process interviews, documents, and mainframe artifacts into structured, queryable knowledge objects.
• Lead backend architecture decisions and mentor junior engineers.
• Implement GitLab CI/CD pipelines for deployment to ROSA (OpenShift), and maintain secure, high-quality code through reviews and testing.
• Integrate Entra ID (Azure AD) authentication and research emerging LLM and RAG patterns to improve retrieval accuracy.

Requirements

• Strong Python or React experience, including FastAPI or a similar asynchronous web framework.
• Experience integrating LLMs and applying RAG architecture patterns.
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining RESTful APIs.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized deployment.
• Solid understanding of Git and version-control workflows.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud environments.

Nice to have

• Experience processing and transforming mainframe artifacts such as JCL, DB2, and COBOL into structured, schema-compliant knowledge objects.
• Experience with vector databases or embedding-based approaches.
• Experience with JSON Schema design, knowledge graphs, or structured-data patterns.
• Experience integrating Entra ID (Azure AD) for authentication and managing secure API access patterns.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular full-time employment with a standard 38:45-hour work week.
• Health, dental, vision, telemedicine, mental-health, and wellbeing programs, with hirify.global paying most healthcare premiums.
• Training programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, mentoring, and financial coaching.
• Up to 20 days of initially accrued annual time off, parental leave, paid holidays, life leave, bereavement leave, and community service or education support days.
• Annual raise and bonus eligibility, matching and grant programs, and a 401(k) with company contributions of up to 7% of salary.